Hunny! 40 Days in the 100 Aker Wood – Day 19
This generosity with strings attached is becoming more and more prevalent in our society. Too often those who can offer help want the whole world to know what their left hands and right hands are doing.
This generosity with strings attached is becoming more and more prevalent in our society. Too often those who can offer help want the whole world to know what their left hands and right hands are doing.
If we have no dates we have no roots, we need them to help us grow up good.
How about the next time we meet an Eeyore Christian we resist the temptation to ignore them, to belittle them, to try and gee them up, to gossip about them, and instead sit and listen?
This task of welcome is not easy. Tiggers will continue to be bouncy and some will wonder if they have ”been strengthened quite enough.”
Those of us who are in a position to be generous can easily fall into the trap of thinking that those who receive help should ‘like it or lump it’.
We don’t want to look at the dark and dirty places but want to fill our magazines and screen with pictures of the glitzy and the glamorous to take our thoughts away from the pain of others. But looking away from something doesn’t make it disappear.
As the good book reminds us, when we ask we will receive (Matthew 7v8) but this promise does not give us permission to take without asking nor use someone else’s precious possessions as our playthings.
Having a friend to walk the journey with you does not mean that fear vanishes (Piglet is just as frightened as Pooh as they try to track down this ‘Hostile Animal’ but they travel together) but it does mean that anxiety is lessened, hearts beat less furiously and the journey continues.
We can’t spend our whole lives reading ‘sustaining books’ whilst others work their fingers to the bone around us. In the Christian Life we cannot be Martha or Mary (Luke 10.38-42)[3] we must needs be both!
‘Getting thin’ as anyone slimming coach will let you know, takes a lifestyle change and learning a different attitude to ourselves as much as more care about our diet.